Evelyn Underhill Quotes
This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumqueut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credantsubdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
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Es gibt kein äußeres Zeichen der Höflichkeit, das nicht einen tiefen sittlichen Grund hätte. Die rechte Erziehung wäre, welche dieses Zeichen und den Grund zugleich überlieferte.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
